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HANSON, & OALLAWAY,

Seed Dropper.

No. 103,454. Patented May 24, 1870.

N. PETERS, PHOTO LITNOGRA iltnited sate fiatent @ilili JOHN F. HANSON AND JOHN E. OALLAWAY, OF BARNESVILLE, GEORGIA.

Letters Patent No. 103,454, dated m 24, 1870.

- IMPROVEMENT 1N1 SEED-DROPPER.

, The'schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making 0 t e Same To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, JOHN F. HANSON and J OHN E. OALLAWAY, oi" Barnesville, in the county of Pike and State of Georgia, have invented a new and improved Seed-Dropper; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Figure 2, a transverse vertical section. I This invention consists of a board for making holes in the. earth, combined with a casefor holding seed and a tube for dropping it on opposite sides of the shove-board, and communicating by an orifice in the latter; and with bars sliding lengthwise of the shoveboard for operating the valves which control the orifice between the seed-case andseed-tube, and alternately admit the chargejinto said orifice and let it out.

In the drawing A is the shove-board, to which the pea-bag A is attached.

B is the seed-case at the bottom of the pea-bag, affixed to the board.

' 'B is the s'eed-tube, aifixed to the opposite side of the board A, and communicating with the seed-case B through an orifice, cf, in the board. Said orifice-is guarded by metal plates or valves 1) b, aflixed at their ends to the sliding bars 0 G, whichplay at the sides of theboard A.

The plate 12 moves in. a slot in the. seed-case, and the plate I) in a slot in the seed-tube, on opposite sides of the shqve-board, and said plates are placed at such an'interval apart-that, when one closes the orifice a, the other opens it.

When the machine is not in use, and the bag A contains grain, the plate I). should be fastened across the orifice a, so as to keep the seed from running out,

by means of a'pin, c, placed in one of the sliding bars 0 just above the loop 0, the latter beingfastened to the shove-board, and passing around the sliding bars, in which loop the latter play.

On arriving at the field, before commencing work,

the pin 0 is removed, which leaves the bars 0 free to the seed-case, allowing a charge of seed to enter the orifice a, which charge is there retained by the plate b until the next hole is made in the earth by the shove. board, when it falls out, as before described.

The machine makes the holes, measures the seed,

and drops it, and may be used as fast as the operator can walk.

Having thus described our invention,

What-we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The shove-board A, seed-case B, seed-tube B, sliding bars 0, and valves 1) I), combined and arranged asand for the purpose described.

J. F. HANSON. JNO. E. OALLAWAY.

Witnesses:

D. P. ASKEW, J. B. HANSON. 

